As of
30 July 2018, Uruguay, Honduras, El Salvador and Costa Rica have joined the European
Union Intellectual Property Office – EUIPO's search tools.

The
National Directorate of Industrial Property under the Ministry of Industry,
Energy and Mining of Uruguay (DNPI) has made its trade mark and design data
available to the TMview and DesignView search tools while the General
Directorate of Intellectual Property of Honduras (DIGEPIH) has also made its
design data available to DesignView.

Additionally,
DNPI and the National Registry Centre of El Salvador (CNR) have joined TMclass
with the latest version of the Nice classification, and the National Registry
of the Republic of Costa Rica (RNPCR) has decided to use the list of goods and
services from the harmonised database (HDB) in TMclass.

With
the addition of DNPI, TMview now contains data from 67 participating offices
and with DNPI and DIGEPIH joining DesignView this tool now offers data from 67
offices.

The
latest addition of DNPI, CNR and RNPCR in TMclass brings the total number of
national and regional IP Offices in the tool to 70.

Likewise,
with RNPCR decision to use HDB, there are now 3 non-EU IP offices that use and
accept terms from this database.

With
the addition of more than 325 000 trade marks from DNPI, TMview provides
information and access to more than 51.1 million trade marks in total.
DesignView contains more than 13.9 million designs, including more than 1 200
designs from DNPI and more than 400 from DIGEPIH

Since
the introduction of TMview on 13 April 2010, the tool has served more than 44.9
million searches from 166 different countries, with Spain, China and Germany
among the most frequent users.

DesignView
went live on 19 November 2012 and has since served more than 3.9 million
searches from 163 different countries, with users from the UK, Germany and
China among the most frequent users.

With
the extension of HDB to RNPCR through TMclass, this tool now offers users the
possibility to search and translate more than 58 000 harmonised concepts among
30 IP offices. It also allows for the translation of goods and services to and
from any of the 44 available languages available.

The
implementations of DNPI, DIGEPIH, CNR and RNPCR in the flagship tools are
concrete results of the IP Key Latin America programme directed by the European
Commission and executed by the European Union Intellectual Property Office
(EUIPO).